In Afghanistan, when, on successive days in October [2001], US gunships machine-gunned and cannoned the remote farming village of Chowkar-Karez killing as many as 93 civilians, a Pentagon official was moved to respond at one point: “the people there are dead because we wanted them dead”.
(borrowed from http://williamblum.org/essays/read/concerning-september-11-2001-and-the-bombing-of-afghanistan)
That's righteousness for you !!!
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